Shoe.



PATENTED JAN. 28, 1908.

C. R. SGHLEIPER.

SHOE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 14,1906.

l/VI/E/VTOR MM W BY 7 ATTORNEYS,

Patented Jan. 28, 18618.

ll -pliomiulz film: may 14- 1%6, Burial No. 316620- To all @1172 0m may soc-mam:

ii known that l, ARLLS a. citizen. of the Un ted at Cei'larlaurg, county Wisconsin, have i. Improvomon s in. Slim.-. in a spa cation.

My lflVOXlllOil relates to improvements in that class of shoe up mm: which we formed integrally from a single piece- 01 lent-her and the object of my improvonmnt is to provide shoe upper which will conform in shape l o and nicely lit tho ankle of tho w MUEI wii lv.

out a heel. Se im anal. without removing any oil-ho material in the. rear of the u; pm." to y Like parts are idonlti'iiod by the roiorenoe gurus tl'woughoui lil *oral laws.

In fonning silos a pie of loziilwr is lll'SL cutiu thoslmq'mslimvnin}? llrox. fLSli'lQlE piooo of lenilmi', the outline of which oomprisos the horizontal out. from i lo '2, lilo m nim-vs ourvod out from L2 to 3, the shaped ('Ul'VO from 3 to i, the horizontal out from to 5, the SQllll-(' Y-l7!,!l-.-l' out from to G. the gwlmped on fn n, 6 no 7 and the curved out-17mm 7 to E. When r119. uppoi is hull thus formed i OlClQil. n'ansvors on L119- M 1: 0 n 1 1., 4 ho Mb -(l 5111,: 0, b, MUM-1L .UlIllS .,l.\. Mullah. vex-mull part 01' the heel pntmn. it will now be llTl(l--l'St'OO(l. lhibil when thus formed. the heel portion from 8 to S will straight and unsj' mmotricol s11" stantiaily as shown. in the. Letters out to Ski referred to and will not COX}: orm to or iii; iii. ankle. of the wearer. By my improvarl-mo 1d the shoe upper when th is formed is and. the angular shaped portions of the. upper included between the lines and 11, l1 and placed in. a (H'lllfll'! l and. H), and the upper side of the blmil" between the lines 13 mid i i, 1 and 15, and l and are strotolloql, and expanded While she cent-ml. poi-mien of the shoe upper between the poinas 1'1 and 14 remain subsmn ially in its rim-moi condition. When the shoe 'i'ippor has been tlug s stretched and ox'pondeiil between the lines indicated the body pelt-ion of tho upper will be proper timiately amended upon the respective slcles of the lino 8, S, "indioate-d by the dotted lines 16, E17, 18 it; when such extended portions are removed! This ljoing clone the blmik folded upon the line 8, 8 when the overlapping parts 19 and 20 are secured togotlier by one or more. stitches .21

when the CEPAR'ZURG, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNO'R TO EXCEL-S101 SHOE &

-l?ER COMPANY, OF CEDARBURG, WISCONSIN.

some is ready to'be attached to the sole of a E1393 and 0119 shoe will have a neat and symmetrical apnomance as indicated in 3.

Having 5 ms t cribenl my invention What 7. claim new and desire 20 seems by Letters Patent is,- l.

The method heroin described of forming a. shoe upper fiom a single pleas of leather lmvingz when made up a centrally inwardly cum-"ed rear )ortion without cutting or stil ol'iinq suol'i Jae-l portion, consisting, first,

inqouttin the slice unor com 'rismfl svtoe gwvsion, and cont stop portion formed inlogmllv, one side of the rout portion beingp'rovioled with a slit 2z=oin ling forwardly bowiu'd Clio longitutlinal center of the upper; second, crimping and mulling the uppor and lower 11% and porii; is of the 11mm films formed, leaving the mull-ally in'vvzirdl'y i uppoz" in suhstmltiiilly its noi'mol pandfl UHIUlll/lfll'i; third, in removing the surplus and POl'tlOHS of the upper which produced by tile outward expansion of the 11 par and lower edges of the shoe upper, anu fourth, in fola'lu'ig and. stitching iho avails-oping side perilous oi the blank together, all substzmlvizally and for 33% purpose specified.

1 .11 testimony W} 'ool I my 5 liatm'e in the presence of Witnesses.

CHARLES E. SCHLEIFER Witnosssf' L. E. JOEHAN, A. E. BIQUBS.

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